Juicing Recipes - Part 1 - Health Plus Digest

Using juice to increase the amount of vitamins, minerals and living enzymes you consume each day is a great way of eliminating the need to take a multi-vitamin. Juice extractors are less expensive and better quality than they have been in past years. Today even busy moms can take the 15 minutes it takes to prepare the fruits and vegetables, juice and clean the juicer while enjoying better health and more vitality.

Here are some excellent recipes to begin with. Once you know what you like that tastes good together you can experiment. Whatever you do – have fun!

Serving sizes for all recipes is 8 ounces.

**Natural Laxative Juice Recipe
– Apple-Pear Juice: 2-3 apples, 1 pear

**Nausea Relief Recipe
– Apple-Ginger Juice: 4 apples, 1-inch knob of ginger root

**Anti-Virus/Cold Prevention – high in vitamin C
– Apple-Kiwi Juice: 2 apples, 4 kiwis
– Apple-Orange Juice: 2 apples, 1 orange (peel and discard skin of the orange)
– Pineapple-Tangerine Juice: 1 1-inch thick pineapple round, 3-4 tangerines (peel and discard skin of tangerine)

**Immune System Support – high in vitamin A
– Carrot-Celery-Apple-Beet-Wheatgrass-Parsley Juice: 3 carrots, 1 stalk celery, 1 apple, ½ beet with greens, ½ handful wheatgrass, ½ handful parsley (you can substitute 1 whole handful of parsley if wheatgrass is unavailable)

**Blood Regenerator – high in iron and chlorophyll
– Carrot-Spinach-Lettuce-Turnip-Parsley Juice: 5 carrots, 6 spinach leaves, 4 lettuce leaves, ¼ turnip, 4 sprigs of parsley

**Internal Body Cleanser Juicing Recipe
– Carrot-Cucumber-Beet Juice: 2-3 carrots, ½ cucumber, ½ beet with greens. You can substitute ½ zucchini for the cucumber

**Bone Building high in calcium
– Carrot-Kale-Parsley-Apple Juice: 5-6 carrots, 4 kale leaves, 4 sprigs of parsley, ½ apple

**Calcium Drink Recipe

1/2 cup fresh broccoli pieces
3 medium carrots, greens removed
1 apple
small handful fresh parsley
1/2 lemon, peeled (optional)
Process the ingredients in a juicer and serve.

Apple Pineapple Ginger Juice Recipe
1 apple, cored and sliced
1 cup fresh pineapple, cubed, skin removed
1/2 inch fresh ginger

Juice the apple and ginger together, then juice the pineapple and serve.